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ASCOM openACCESS
®
NODE
ENABLING NETWORK-CENTRIC OPERATIONS
[ SECURITY COMMUNICATION ]
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Ascom openAccess® Node
Company Perspective
It takes the right technology, the right people and vision to maintain
a leading position as an international provider of ‘mission critical
communications’ solutions. This is Ascom - a Swiss communications
company - that for more than 100 years has been known for unparalleled
quality in communication solutions.
Today these solutions form the backbone of tactical communication
infrastructures that deliver the highest standards of performance and
reliability demanded by national and international military, peace-keeping
and crisis management operations.
Our focus on communications and tactical communications’ experience
is evermore recognized throughout the defense industry and makes us a
valuable partner.
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Ascom openAccess® Node
Ascom openAccess® Philosophy
Openness is a spectrum. Having just ‘open data’ is not always sufficient
for providing deep integration. Ascom is committed to Openness with a
truly open software platform strategy – branded under the name
openAccess® – that serves as a focal point for collaboration with our
partners and customers. Ascom military products are compatible with
other devices and other companies’ own systems as well as applications
developed by other parties.
Ascom openAccess® is a managed library of well-tested hardware and
software components for the realization of voice, data and video
communications. The platform has been engineered with many features
including the flexibility to support future extensions in military operational
requirements. The openAccess® operating system is embedded in Ascom
openAccess Nodes product range. This economy of scope means more
efficiency in operations, planning, training and maintenance.
Principal Solution
Ascom’s primary tactical communications offering composes a palette
of IP access nodes that conform to NATO TACOMS Post 2000 architecture
requirements for Wide Area Sub-system, Local Area Sub-system and Mobile
Sub-systems. All Ascom openAccess® Nodes comply with military
environmental specifications as well as established industry and
governmental communication standards.
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Ascom openAccess® Node
IP EVERYWHERE
Versatile Product Portfolio
Ascom openAccess® Nodes can concurrently support multiple roles in
practical military communication scenarios. They enable transparent voice
and data communication between strategic, public and legacy networks
while interoperability and ahierarchical networking insures effective
communication at every level – from inter-trooper through the squad and
platoon up to the division and corps ‘Command & Control’.
Ascom openAccess® Nodes are dependable. They deliver the
performance essential in the combat arena and fulfill the configuration
demanded by battlefield units. Ascom tactical communications equipment
has been chosen by several European national defense forces. And, for many
years continue to provide mobile voice and data services. These military
operations have proven Ascom openAccess® Nodes interoperability under
real day-to-day deployment conditions.
Ease of Operation
An integral part of the Ascom openAccess® Node is a suite of network
management tools, based on widely supported standards for seamless
integration into existing systems. With dedicated tools for local control,
Ascom openAccess® Nodes are simple to configure and easy to operate
making it ideal for frequent change of personnel.
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Economies of Scope
The Ascom openAccess® Node can be deployed in a variety of roles,
or multi-role, and conforms to NATO TACOMS Post 2000 requirements. This
multi-function capability offers not only unit economy but vital
flexibility that ensures rapid network architecture changes or relocations.
Inter-Operability and Legacy Integration
Ascom openAccess Nodes® meet Wide Area Subsystem (WAS) re-
quirements for Radio Access Points (RAP) and Inter-Operability Points (IOP)
towards strategic and other external networks. Moreover, they provide
backward compatibility to legacy military systems and support gateway
functions for Eurocom to VoIP, Eurocom over IP as well as IP streaming over
Eurocom.
Ascom military solutions assure investment protection of legacy radio
relay and microwave communication equipment.
compact, rugged
Ascom TAN R
Ascom AN G
non-rugged
Ascom AN C
19“, non-rugged
IOG
RAP
WAS
WAS
Edge
External
Network
Strategic
Legacy
Civil
Combined Operations
Joint Operations
LAS
MS
CNET / PNET
LAN / WLAN
Wide Area Subsystem
Local Area Subsystem
Mobile Subsystems (VHF/HF)
Radio Access Point
Inter-Operable Gateway
WAS
LAS
MS
Edge Node
Access Node
Access Node
WAS
LAS
MS
RAP
IOG
Ascom TAN T
19“, rugged
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Voice and Data Integration
Ascom openAccess® Node delivers secure IP-based voice, data, and
video communications as well as advanced tactical radio integration for HF
and VHF and data capabilities. Other advanced functionality includes IP-
unicast and bandwidth efficient IP multicast routing over multiple
subnets.
Next Generation Wireless Readiness
At the heart of many emerging military wireless communications
systems are software defind Radio and Packet Radio technologies, including
commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies, such as WLAN, 3G and
WiMAX. Ascom openAccess® Node can easily integrate these.
Data Routing and Priority Functions
Quality of Service (QoS) based Traffic Prioritization - Ascom openAc-
cess allows for QoS level routing based on criteria as source and destination
port.
Priority levels may be assigned to voice calls, depending on user role
and manual priority selection such as “emergency call.”
Mobility of Telephony Services
Mobility is an essential attribute. Existing links to users, terminals and
nodes may outdate and need to reestablish automatically as users or
vehicles move. Ascom provides call-route discovery and auto affiliation
algorithms that support user, terminal and node mobility in semi-mobile
meshed networks including low bandwidth tactical radio systems.
KEY CAPABILITIES AND OPERATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
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ASCOM openACCESS® NODE FEATURES
General Features
Strictly ahierarchical deployable system
Meshed network topology
Virtual LAN (VLAN) topology support
Support for heterogeneous communication systems
MIL Standards
Virtual Private Networks (VPN) support with strong encryption and customer
specific ciphers
EUROCOM trunk over IP links, VoIP to EUROCOM gateway
Voice Features
Automated soft PBX / ‘call-manager’ with SIP
Typical interfaces: VoIP (SIP, H.323), EUROCOM, PMR and tactical radio voice interfaces,
VoWiFi, PSTN/ISDN (G.703/704, EuroISDN Q.931, CCS, CAS signalling), SHDSL
Coding: G.711 a-/u-law (PCM), G.729, G.723, GSM codecs, EUROCOM delta coding
ROIP, voice call to/from radio devices
Conference call
Hot line
Mobility of telephony services, auto affiliation
Comfort operator station for manual voice dispatching
ASCOM openACCESS
®
NODE FEATURES
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Data Features
Bandwidth efficient multicast routing over multiple subnets
Military applications, file server, mail server, video streaming, video conferencing
Typical interfaces: EUROCOM, PMR and tactical radio data interfaces, SAT, Copper/
Fibre Ethernet, WLAN, WiMAX
ARQ file transmission
DNS, DHCP
Radio Features
PR4G VHF / HF (SYCOMORE and transparent data port supported); other radio
technologies upon request
Real time transmission of most recent messages
HW TDMA support
Header compression
TDMA monitoring / connectivity status via SNMP
TETRA / TETRAPOL
Configuration and system management
Multiple system management
Configuration and management of PR4G radios; other radio technologies upon request
Customer specific configuration
Ruggedized management console
Extended Environmental Conditions
Ruggedized products available, according to MIL-STD-810F and MIL-STD 461E
standards.
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